124, 127, 360.

Hartford Wits, the, 119-130, 135,
136, 157.

Harvard College, 26, 42-43, 44, 46,
47, 48, 50, 75, 78, 79, 83, 93, 94,
119, 120, 122, 129, 224, 235, 240,
253, 255, 260, 261, 262, 264-265,
267, 209, 271, 272, 273, 281, 288,
311, 332, 346, 348, 350, 379-380,
381, 393. 394, 395, 396, 398, 404,
407, 408, 412-415, 443-445, 480.
Haverhill, Massachusetts, 358, 360.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 425-435, 163,
168, 176, 206, 240, 306, 308, 328,
376, 377, 379, 438, 445, 471, 477,
489, 516, 528.

Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 486, 490-

492, 499.

Hayne, Robert Young, 252, 485, 490.
Heary, Patrick, 112, 120.
Herbert of Cherbury, Lord, 19, 32.
Herndon's Life of Lincoln, 503.
Hildreth, Richard, 272.
Historical Continuity, 18, 29
Historical literature in America, 31,
36, 42, 43, 78, 81, 119, 136, 171-
173, 178-179, 245, 263-276, 338,
378, 486, 528; in England, 37,
119, 275

History, American, of the Seven-

teenth Century, 26-34; 42, 55, 70,
77, 357, 523; of the Eighteenth
Century, 70-77, 524; of the Nine-
teenth Century, 149-153, 357, 525-
526; in general, 530.
History, English, of the Seventeenth

Century, 13-19, 20, 29, 55, 357,

522; of the Eighteenth Century,
59-64, 524; of the Nineteenth
Century, 139-144, 525.

Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood, 438.
Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 208, 220.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert, 459-461.
Hollis Professorship at Harvard
College, 281.

Hollis Street Church in Boston,
442.

Holmes, Abiel, 288, 407.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 407-424;
65, 206, 221, 222, 229, 239, 376,
377, 425, 426, 430, 443, 489, 508-
509, 511, 528; his " Autocrat,"
241, 444; his "Mortal Antipathy,"
222; his memoir of Motley, 437-
438; his "One Hoss Shay," 90-

91.

"Home Journal," the, 226.
Hooker, Richard, 4, 22, 37.
Hooker, Thomas, 26, 84.
Hopkinson, Francis, 112-115, 175,
his "Battle of the Keys," 508.
"Hudibras," see Butler.
Human Nature, opposing views
concerning; see Calvinism, Revo-
lutionary Spirit, Unitarianism.
Humanism in New England, 406.
Humanity of Classical Literature,
315-316 See Popularity.
Hume, David, 66, 67.

Humor, American, 101, 173, 179,
507-513, 515, 518.

Hunt, Leigh, 174, 224, 228.
Hunt, William Morris, 438.
Hutchinson, Thomas, 77, 110, 120,
260; his "History of Massachu-
setts," 82, 263.

IDEALISM in America, 293–294,

304. 310, 319-323, 371-372, 417,
432, 524. 525, 529. See Mystery,
Puritanism.

Ideals, American devotion to Ab-
stract, see Abstract Principles.
Ideals, the National, of England and
America, 8, 14, 18, 28, 46, 70, 82,

106, 190, 246, 521-530. See Bible,
Democracy, Law, Right and
Rights, Union.

Imitativeness in American Writings,
38, 41, 54, 119, 130, 135, 162, 167,
170, 173, 181, 184, 196, 224, 228,
247, 253, 258-259, 262, 272, 372,
386-387, 391, 480-481, 483, 489,
491. See Style.

Independence, Declaration of, see
Declaration.

India, the Empire of, 62, 142, 143.
Indians, American, 31, 32, 73, 186,

274, 505.

Individualism, Growth of, in New
England, 327, 330, 442-444. See
Alcott, Emerson, Thoreau, Trans-
cendentalism, Unitarianism.
Inexperience, the National of Amer-
ica, 34, 37, 55, 77, 116, 130, 136,
153, 218, 279, 287, 327, 359, 362,
384-385, 424, 446, 529. See Den-
sity, Retardation.
Innate ideas, 294, 300, 304.
Instrument of Government, the, 18, 28.
Insularity of Modern England, 62,
64, 69, 139–140. See John Bull.
Irving, Washington, 169-180; 168,
181, 184, 185, 189, 190, 191, 194,
195, 201, 203, 221, 228, 229, 230,
271, 276, 280, 290, 328, 432, 433,
449, 462, 477, 509, 511, 516, 527.
Isabella II., Queen, 169.

Jonson, Ben, 20, 25.
Journalism in America, see News
papers.

KEATS, John, 134, 145, 193, 195,
526.

Kennedy, John Pendleton, 486.
King's Chapel, in Boston, 105,
121-122, 178, 288; its "Liturgy,"
281.

Kipling, Rudyard, 147, 516.
Kirkland, Caroline Matilda, 208,
229, 501-503.
"Knickerbocker Gallery," 237, 466.
"Knickerbocker Magazine," 374,
386, 459, 514.

"Knickerbocker School," the, 219-
230; 280, 309, 338, 449, 465, 487,
513.

LAFAYETTE, 115-116.

Lamb, Charles, 67, 69.

Landor, Walter Savage, 67, 69,
197.

Language and Nationality, 3, 8, 18,
28, 82, 106, 521. See Ideals.
Language, the English, 3, 8.
Lanier, Sidney, 481, 486, 491, 495-
499.

Larcom, Lucy, 237.

Law, the English or Common, 8, 14,
17, 18, 19, 30, 46, 61, 62, 63, 64, 70,
74, 82, 106, 108, 109, 116, 142–144,
150, 190, 246, 274, 292, 298, 325,
340, 373, 467, 521-522, 524, 530.
Law, the Profession of, in America,
236, 246, 248-249, 251, 258, 260,
274, 348, 350, 378, 408, 415, 441;
American Men of Letters as Stu-
dents of, 169, 194, 264, 380, 393,
408, 458, 485, 486, 487, 488, 491,
495.
Lectures in America, 247, 313, 314,
315, 317, 325, 330, 456, 459, 511.
Lee, Robert Edward, 151.
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 222.
Lewis, "Monk," 67, 68, 160, 163.

Liberalism, in New England, 42, 43,
46, 119, 122, 224, 442. See Tran-
scendentalism, Unitarianism.
Liberty, the Ideal of, 273, 443, 467,
530.

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity,"
467-468.

Lieber, Francis, 486.

Lincoln, Abraham, 151, 474, 503-504.
Literature defined, 1-3; evolution

of, 5; motives of, 191, 228, 309;
permanent, 315; study and influ-
ence of, in America. See Classics,
Modern Languages.
Literature in America, 9-10, 405,
479; of, the Seventeenth Century,
35-43 55, 119, 190, 246, 523; of
the Eighteenth Century, 78-82;
117-136; 190, 246, 525; of the
Nineteenth Century, 154-518, 526-
530.
Literature, Elizabethan, see English
of the Seventeenth Century.
Literature, English, 4-6; of the
Seventeenth Century, 20-25, 27,
37, 55, 65, 69, 136, 146, 523; of the
Eighteenth Century, 65-69, 136,
146, 173-174, 200-201, 415-416,
524; of the Nineteenth Century,
145-148, 154, 201, 430-431, 526–
529.
Literature, "Queen Anne." See Eng-
lish of the Eighteenth Century.
Literature of the Regency. See
English of the Nineteenth Cen-
tury.
Literature, Victorian. See English
of the Nineteenth Century.
London, 25.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 378-
392; 206, 209, 222, 296, 350, 376,
377, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398,
406, 418, 425, 426, 430, 438, 489,
528.

Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 486.
Lord's Supper, in the New England

Churches, 86, 312-313, 372, 379.
Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford, his
Life of Cooper, 182, 183.

Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 149 n.
Lowell, Charles, 393, 442.
Lowell, James Russell, 393-406; 170,
206, 222, 237, 262, 296, 376, 377,
380-381, 414, 415, 418, 425, 426,
430, 438, 465, 489, 509, 528; his
Biglow Papers," 477, 508, 511;
his Fable for Critics," 185, 199,
222, 400, 508; his essay on "Tho-
reau," 339.

64

66

Lowell, John, 438.

Lower Classes of New England, 75-

76, 102, 242, 332, 337-338, 348, 359,
362, 396, 402, 425, 427, 481; of the
South. See Slavery; of the West,
501-502.

Loyalists, the American, 82, 107-108,
110, 125, 181, 241, 260, 381.
Lyric Quality in Literature, 216; in
Southern poetry, 495, 498, 499.
"Lyrical Ballads," Wordsworth and
Coleridge's, 68, 145, 159, 162, 189,
191, 290.

MACAULAY, Lord, 206, 268,
526.

Madison, James, 117, 118, 120, 150.
Magazines in America. See Periodi-
cals.

Maine, woods of, 334, 425, 429.
Manufactures of New England, 152,
244, 245, 249, 440.
Marlborough, Duke of, 19, 21, 32,
61, 62.

Marlowe, Christopher, 207, 217.
Marshall, John, 118, 120, 485.
Mary Stuart, Queen, 26.
Massachusetts, 26, 27, 28, 31, 45, 78,

94, 110, 120, 122, 192, 193, 234, 253,
255, 262, 263, 278, 351, 356, 358,
360, 450, 459, 510.
Massachusetts Historical Society,
31, 261, 262, 263, 267, 274.
Materialism in New York, 451-454,
463; throughout America, 468,

505.
Mather, Cotton, 44-54; 33, 35, 42,
43, 70, 71, 75, 78, 82, 95, 136, 233,

245, 263, 279, 287, 288, 311, 313,
334, 409, 436-437, 439.
Mather, Increase, 32, 43, 44, 45, 46,
83, 95, 233, 261.

Mather, Richard, 27, 32, 37, 44.
Medicine, the Profession of, in Amer-

ica, 193, 236, 408–409.
Melodrama, 213-214, 432.
Melville, Hermann, 229.
Merchants of New England, 71–73,
76, 236, 237, 240-244, 439.
Methodism, 66, 74–75, 97, 374.
Mexican War, 401.

Middle States, or Colonies, 157–230;
36, 78, 79, 80, 154, 262, 291, 372,
449, 463-464, 480, 526, 527.
Milton, John, 20, 21, 23, 24, 37, 42,

55, 65, 68, 69, 136, 387, 523.
Minto, William, 206.

Mirror," the New York, 223, 225,

"Nation," the, 453, 454.
Nationality, in general, 3. See Lan

guage; of America, 77. See Ideals.
National Traits of Elizabethan Eng-

land (Spontaneity, Enthusiasm,
and Versatility), 19, 21-24, 25, 27,
64, 67, 69, 522; evident in America,
28, 33, 53, 55, 75-77, 111, 112, 115,
131, 332, 445-446, 522-524, 529.
Nature, Sense of, in American Books,
273, 333-335, 361-363, 389, 493,
497-498. See Descripțion.
Navy, the American, 181, 244.
Negro Minstrel Shows, 510.
Nelson, Lord, 62, 68, 139, 145.
Newburyport, 343, 360.
New England, 26, 27, 28-34, 35-43,
45-53, 55, 70-76, 78–79, 108, 152,
154, 190, 221, 226, 229, 230, 233-
446, 449, 455, 462, 465, 471, 480,
489, 493, 501, 504, 513, 514, 523,
526, 528-530.

"New England Primer," 36.
New Hampshire, 248, 249, 253, 360,

New Haven, 51, 84, 120, 124.
New Jersey, 80, 130, 181, 466.
Newman, Cardinal, 526, 528.
New Orleans, 73, 233, 486.
Newspapers in America, 79, 157, 183,

187, 193, 201, 202, 209, 211, 225-
226, 229, 230, 309, 342, 360, 365,
400, 449, 455, 458, 507-513, 514-
515, 517, 518.

Newton, Sir Isaac, 25, 32.

New York, 79, 114, 120, 130, 154,

157, 163, 182, 190, 191, 192,197,
201, 204, 205, 210, 219, 225, 226-
230, 233, 234, 262, 280, 290. .308
309, 338, 372, 374, 405, 449–464,
465-466, 472, 478-479, 489, 501,

504, 505, 513, 514, 515.
Nile, Battle of the, 60, 61, 62, 68,
139, 145, 146.
"North American Review," the, 194,
197, 255, 262, 267, 272, 291, 302,
370, 404, 436, 443, 453.

North and South, Divergence of, in
America, 27-28, 151, 495. See

PALFREY, John Gorham, 272.
Pamphleteering, 112, 119.
Pancoast, H. S., his "Introduction
to American Literature," 485-487,
490.

Panic of 1857, 450.

Park Street Church in Boston, 224,
225.

Parker, Theodore, 346-348; 258, 302,
304, 308, 352, 366, 371, 439.
Parkman, Francis, 273-274; 29, 73,
280, 371, 438.

Patriotic verse in America, 120, 125,
127, 131, 193. See F. O. Ticknor,
Timrod, Whittier.

Paulding, James Kirke, 195.
Payne, John Howard, 158.

Peabody, Andrew Preston, 262, 287.

Pearson, Eliphalet, 282.
Pedantry in New England, 326, 397.
Peirce, Benjamin, 438.

Pepys, Samuel, 19, 32.

Periodical Literature in America, 79,
157, 159, 205, 219, 262, 301-304,
370-377, 404, 449, 453-454, 515-
517. See Newspapers.

Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard
College, 194, 255, 313, 412.
Philadelphia, 78, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98,
112, 120, 130, 159, 165, 205, 233,
234, 261, 360, 451.

Phillips, Wendell, 348-350; 258, 352,
366, 371, 439.

Phillips, Willard, 194.

Philosophy in New England. See

Idealism, Transcendentalism.
Phips, Sir William, 33, 45, 50, 73.
"Phoenix, John," 510-511, 512, 515.
Pierce, Franklin, 378, 425, 426.
Pierrepont, Sarah (Mrs. Edwards),
84-85.

Pinckney, Edward Coate, 486.
Pioneers, Western, 500-501.

Pitt.

See Chatham.

Plan of this book, 10.

Plots in American Fiction, 185, 188,
189, 354, 488.

Plymouth Colony, 26, 28, 31, 240,

244, 255-256, 263, 288.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 204-218; 163, 168,

177, 219, 228, 230, 280, 301, 335,
338, 386, 432, 433, 449, 477, 486,
516; his Literati," 220, 487,

501.

Poetry, in the Evolution of Liter-

ature, 5, 167; in America, 38-41,
90-91, 119-134, 186, 191, 192-203,
206, 209-210, 211-216, 220, 221,
223, 226, 227, 230, 304, 316, 317,
361-369, 375, 378-392, 398-403,
410-415, 443, 457-458, 461, 465-
479, 481, 489-498, 516, 528; in
England, 5, 21-24, 37, 38, 65, 66,
145-148, 154, 200, 291, 310, 526,
527, 528.

Poetry, Theories of, Bryant's, 198;
Lanier's, 496; Poe's, 211.